New Castle County Staff Picks - November 2023

Updated November 6, 2023
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Standing in the shadows
Robinson, Peter
Paper Book
"One of the finest police procedural writers around... [Standing in the Shadows] is as narratively rich and surprising as Robinson's best work. Knowing it's his last makes the reading bittersweet."  -- New York Times Book Review The 28th twisting installment in the DCI...
Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST * THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution...
The trackers : a novel
Frazier, Charles
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes,...
Family meal : a novel
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters--and readers--an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."<...
The girl in the eagle's talons
Smirnoff, Karin
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER * Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series * Also known as the Millennium series "Lisbeth Salander is back--and maybe better than ever. Karin...
Normal rules don't apply : short stories
Atkinson, Kate
Paper Book
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels--the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the...
The rigor of angels : Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the ultimate nature of reality
Egginton, William
Paper Book
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe-the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind-and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world Argentine poet Jorge...
Pockets : an intimate history of how we keep things close
Carlson, Hannah (Historian)
Paper Book
"Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising account, Hannah Carlson turns the pocket inside out and out tumble pocket watches, coins, pistols, and a riveting centuries-long social and political history." ―Jill Lepore, author...
The Dish : The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food
Friedman, Andrew.
Paper Book
Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern farming industry, and food-supply chain. On a...
Father and son : a memoir
Raban, Jonathan
Paper Book
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "A beautiful,...
Behind the Seams : My Life in Rhinestones
Parton, Dolly/ George-Warren, Holly (CON)/ Seaver, Rebecca (CON)
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,...
Under the influence : a novel
Crooks, Noelle
Paper Book
The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable debut following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and quickly discovers there's an ugly side to being a #GirlBoss. After a series of go-nowhere jobs in the New...
She started it : a novel
Gilbert, Sian
Paper Book
A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It's Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel...
The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight
Leland, Andrew
Paper Book
We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his...
Only the beautiful
Meissner, Susan
Paper Book
California, 1938 - When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's spacious house with a secret, however - Rosie sees colours...

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